She's The Man
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She's the Man is a 2006 film, starring Amanda Bynes and directed by Andy Fickman, based on William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will. The film also stars Alex Breckenridge and co-stars David Cross.
Tagline
Everybody has a secret...Duke wants Olivia who likes Sebastian who is really Viola whose brother is dating Monique so she hates Olivia who's with Duke to make Sebastian jealous who is really Viola who's crushing on Duke who thinks she's a guy...Plot synopsis
Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) is a member of an upper-class family and plays for her school's (Cornwall High) soccer team. When Cornwall cuts the girls' soccer team because not enough girls signed up for it, Viola decides to try out for the boys' team. The coach of the boys' team refuses to allow Viola to try out, because according to him, girls are not as good as boys when it comes to soccer. To make matters worse, Viola's boyfriend Justin (the captain of the boys' team) agrees with his coach's view that girls should not be allowed to try out.Viola's twin brother Sebastian, an aspiring musician, decides to skip his first two weeks of school at Illyria Academy to play at his band's gig in London. Taking advantage of the situation, Viola impersonates her brother and attends Illyria Academy in his place in order to try her luck in the Illyria boys' soccer team. Viola wants to make the team and play against her old school to show everyone that girls can indeed play soccer just as well as the boys.
For the purpose of looking like a boy, she dresses differently ("cross-dresses"), wears a wig, lowers her voice, and changes her manners. With a tight cloth she flattens her breasts. She avoids playing soccer barechested pretending that her skin is oversensitive to sunlight. She avoids taking a shower together with others. After getting a ball against her crotch, she pretends that it hurts.
At Illyria Academy, Viola is caught up in a complex web of crushes and love interests. She falls in love with Sebastian's roommate Duke (Channing Tatum), the captain of the Illyria boys' soccer team. Meanwhile, Duke has a crush on Olivia, the prettiest girl in school. Duke enlists the help of Viola (posing as Sebastian) to help him get a date with Olivia, but in this process of matchmaking, Olivia falls for Viola (as Sebastian) instead. To make Viola (as Sebastian) notice her, Olivia flirts and dates Duke, to Viola's chagrin. When the real Sebastian unexpectantly returns from London early, Olivia kisses him in front of Duke, setting off a series of confused actions and reactions.
References to Twelfth Night
- On the movie poster near the bottom in the production credits, there is a line that says: Inspired by the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
- In the trailer, when Amanda Bynes walks through the school's campus outside, a billboard can be seen on the left hand side advertising the school's production of "What You Will". That is the alternate title for Twelfth Night, which this film is based on.
- The pizza parlor where the kids hang out is called Cesario's, in reference to the name Cesario, which is the name Viola used when she posed as a boy in the play Twelfth Night.
- The line "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them," which was spoken by the character of Duke Orsino in the film, is a direct quotation from the letter read by Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
- Various character names in the film are taken from Twelfth Night, although the roles in the film bear no similarity to their namesakes in the play. These character names are: Malvolio (the name of Malcolm's tarantula in the film), Feste (Malcolm's last name in the film), Valentine (Monique's last name in the film), Andrew and Toby (Duke's soccer buddies in the film) and Maria (Olivia's friend in the film).
- Stratford Country Club is a reference to Stratford-upon-Avon, where William Shakespeare grew up.
- "Illyria" is the country in which Twelfth Night, or What You Will is set.
- In Twelfth Night, or What You Will, a Duke named Orsino does fall in love with Olivia, who falls in love with Viola in disguise, as Viola herself, trapped looking like a man, falls in love with Orsino.
- Viola and Sebastian are twins in both this movie and the play.
- In the play, Viola dresses as a guy because she needs to be male in order to get a job and survive, just as Viola "needs" to disguise herself in order to get on a soccer team in the movie.
- The confusion caused when Olivia kisses the real Sebastian in the movie directly parallels the confusion Sebastian feels in Twelfth Night, or What You Will when Olivia expresses her love for him and proposes marriage.
- When Duke has the disguised Viola help him get Olivia's attention in the movie, he is doing exactly what the Duke Orsino had his servant Cesario (Viola in disguise) do in the play.
North American box office total
As of April 16 2006, She's the Man has grossed a total of 31.8 million U.S. dollars at the North American box office. [[Citing sources citation needed]]Trivia
- Jesse McCartney was about to play James Kirk's character but he wasn't available. As a result, Bynes' character pretending to be a male seems to resemble McCartney.
- Bynes didn't really play soccer; her double for most of her soccer scenes was Shannon McDonald, a native of Richmond, British Columbia. McDonald's husband was also a double for Tatum.
- Olivia and Viola's name are almost perfect anagrams
- The lyrics of Sebastian's song in the film are the opening lines of "Let Go" by Dave Lichens.
- The final film to be distributed by DreamWorks themselves, as Paramount Pictures purchased the company in 2005. It was made before the purchase, and released afterwards. The first DreamWorks film to be distributed by Paramount is Over The Hedge. Paramount, however, will release She's the Man on DVD
- She's the Man was filmed in Vancouver.
See also
- Cross-dressing in film and television
- Shakespeare on screen (Twelfth Night)
External links
- [Official site]
- [She's the Man soundtrack] questions, answers and other music information.
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